Hello everyone, yesterday i figured a big problem with the battery of my 3 Weeks note.
I'm so upset and its driving me crazy.
I screen captured this. Battery life became so short it hardly works for 10 hours maximum if i don't use it much. Thanks
might want to get rid of that any.do app or change the settings. .
No i don't think any do is the problem as i downloaded it about 2 Weeks ago, and the problem started just yesterday.
what settings do you think i should modify?
well maybe any do wasn't the problem 2 weeks ago.. but it is the problem now.. why ask if u aren't going to take advice?
do you have the original samsung batterie? or an cheap rebuilt one? I've made some bad experience with cheap chinese batteries...
Do you have the stock kernel? In some old versions of Abyss Kernel i had bad batterie lives...
Dear bambo i did take advice and deleted the app. I've formatted the device 30 minutes ago as well.
Still having the same problem.
Mr David its the phone's original battery made in Japan finished in China
I took a screen shot after the formatting. Its just getting worse.
Thanks for helping guys
tap on the graph to expand it and post that.
Try badass battery monitor pro and see what may be keeping the phone awake, or waking it up often.
what graph?
I've had loads of batt drain problems, and found the batt stats app to be really misleading.
In nearly all cases a random app 'appeared' to be the culprit but further investigation yielded it as being some other app filling the system log (logcat). Try looking at something you installed more recently. Uninstall them one by one and check foe when the batt drain stops. That'll be your culprit I reckon.
The more complicated approach is to install something like catlog from Google Play and read through the system log and try to work it out that way. I used his approach to discover WidgetLocker was capping my juice even though AVG was being reported as the battery hog!
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salahayano said:
what graph?
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the graph at the top of the screenshot in your first post
salahayano said:
Dear bambo i did take advice and deleted the app. I've formatted the device 30 minutes ago as well.
Still having the same problem.
Mr David its the phone's original battery made in Japan finished in China
I took a screen shot after the formatting. Its just getting worse.
Thanks for helping guys
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Go to market and install Better Battery Stats. It will give you all the wakelocks and the culprit apps and kernel that might be eating your battery and not allowing the device to go into deep sleep and conserve battery !
Thanks for helping guys, I formatted the phone yesterday.
I‘am afraid the battery has a hardware problem. I'll have to contact the store I think, thanks to ALLAH I have 1 year full warranty. But I've got 2 questions for you guys:
1- I charge the phone while sleeping, so it stays plugged about 4 hours after its fully charged. Does that shorten the battery ‘a life?
2- Does the Android get viruses? Cuz if its not a battery problem, it might be a virus though.
salahayano said:
Thanks for helping guys, I formatted the phone yesterday.
I‘am afraid the battery has a hardware problem. I'll have to contact the store I think, thanks to ALLAH I have 1 year full warranty. But I've got 2 questions for you guys:
1- I charge the phone while sleeping, so it stays plugged about 4 hours after its fully charged. Does that shorten the battery ‘a life?
2- Does the Android get viruses? Cuz if its not a battery problem, it might be a virus though.
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-1- No, dont worry about your batt if u plugged more.
-2- I dont know about virus, but what i know if u install crack apps its maybe a virus.
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So for the last 2 days before work, I would charge my phone completly to 100%. I work at 4am and it would be 99%....ok forward ahead 2-3 hours, ill check my phone and its at 20%. I've already check tsk manger both days but I only leave panda firewall running and alarming!
Is this defective battery? Or something else? Any ideas.
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So for the last 2 days before work, I would charge my phone completly to 100%. I work at 4am and it would be 99%....ok forward ahead 2-3 hours, ill check my phone and its at 20%. I've already check tsk manger both days but I only leave panda firewall running and alarming!
Is this defective battery? Or something else? Any ideas.
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Do you have an extra battery to test with or just the one? If you have two batteries, it would be easier to diagnose whether the first battery is defective based on how fast the second battery drains. It might be worth borrowing a friends or buying one on amazon. You can get the OEM battery for relatively cheap nowadays (<$20)
Also depending on how long you have had your phone for you can call T-Mobile up and complain. I did this and got a free 2nd battery. Just tell them you have already gone through troubleshooting steps by turning off gps, bluetooth, wifi, 3g, and lowered the screen brightness. Even if you are over your allowed time I'm sure if you talk right you still might get a free battery, my friend did to.
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Also depending on how long you have had your phone for you can call T-Mobile up and complain. I did this and got a free 2nd battery. Just tell them you have already gone through troubleshooting steps by turning off gps, bluetooth, wifi, 3g, and lowered the screen brightness. Even if you are over your allowed time I'm sure if you talk right you still might get a free battery, my friend did to.
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Yeah, I did this too, but that was a while ago (November or December) when it seems that T-Mobile was handing out batteries like candy to pacify all the people that were upset with battery life. I didn't know if people were still succeeding in getting a battery for free, but that is definitely worth a try first.
DirectMatrix said:
Yeah, I did this too, but that was a while ago (November or December) when it seems that T-Mobile was handing out batteries like candy to pacify all the people that were upset with battery life. I didn't know if people were still succeeding in getting a battery for free, but that is definitely worth a try first.
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lol. Yea they was just handing them out. My friend got one just the other month so its seems they are still trying to satisfy the customer.
Alright I'm probably just gonna go into tmobile cause it would be easier probably. And I've had my phone on for 10 minutes now for break, went from 17% down to less then 5% so.... this is irritating me....DAMN TMOBILE! Even if it isn't there fault I still want to blame them!
i bought my battery for 8 bucks =x i didnt feel like goig thru tmobiles battery crap
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Alright I'm probably just gonna go into tmobile cause it would be easier probably. And I've had my phone on for 10 minutes now for break, went from 17% down to less then 5% so.... this is irritating me....DAMN TMOBILE! Even if it isn't there fault I still want to blame them!
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You might have to call them up. I don't think they will do it in the store, but again if you know how to talk anything can happen.
I'm not sure if it makes a difference or not, but when I was running Cyanogens roms above 3.6.5 I would get horrible battery readings. I'd reboot and it would says something different.
I believe its a known bug in Cupcake builds about battery readings. Cyanogen did post up a link to Android's official bug tracker but I can't remember the link by memory.
Also try calibrating your battery too and use a program like Watts to track your battery usage over time.
Also using the Open Overclocker widget is amazing, you can set the Screen Off CPU frequency, forcing the CPU to scale down when idle. I'm not 100% sure if Cyanogen's ROM does this on default or not though but I know it does do CPU scaling.
Posting here since its battery related .. ever since the upgrade to crc1 my battery charges extremely slow .. like it wont go to 100 percent in 8hrs .. but when I restart it at like 80% it will show 100, but if i leave it there long enough im sure it will keep climing slowly in percentage. Anyone else having problems like this?
Yes, it's a known bug.
Fully charge your battery then do the following.
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rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
The battery reading will be more accurate.
Alot were right, nothing can be done in store. They pretty much shooed me away and said to call 611. Did. Told me to call HTC. Can't cause there closed lol. Anyways im going to try what Prettyboy said, but I'm turn the phone off I think to charge it fully. No extra battery though =/ They said I would have to provide a CC to get them to send an extra battery and then send the old one back.
prettyboy85712 said:
Yes, it's a known bug.
Fully charge your battery then do the following.
su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
The battery reading will be more accurate.
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thanks for this. but what does it exactly do??
It deletes the old battery stats file and Android creates a new one, which would be more accurately calibrated. Think of it like a battery stats reset.
NeoBlade said:
It deletes the old battery stats file and Android creates a new one, which would be more accurately calibrated. Think of it like a battery stats reset.
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after the command, do I need to reboot?
Wouldnlt hurt.
prettyboy85712 said:
Yes, it's a known bug.
Fully charge your battery then do the following.
su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
The battery reading will be more accurate.
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I have su file manager and i can get into the system files and see the batterstats.bin file .. what should i do? delete it?
I'm a *nix noob but i believe the " rm" command under su will delete it!
turboyo said:
I have su file manager and i can get into the system files and see the batterstats.bin file .. what should i do? delete it?
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Yes, delete it.
Guys,
Can someone tell me what I can do to make my display act normal. it appears as though it is the killer of my battery. The phone screen hasn't been on as long as this says it has.
I am running Darch's 8/22 build of Froyo. Other than terrible batt life, it is a great ROM. Also, I have the newest colin batter tweak going. Need help!
Thanks for any ideas you can give me!
This is not a bad thing. You need to understand that you are seeing a percentage of usage so there is always going to be something that is using the majority of your battery. The nice thing is that you can visually see if your display is on and using battery power. If your phone has the screen off then most likely there is something wrong with the rom and you may want to wipe and reinstall.....or the information is being displayed improperly which again may be an issue with the rom install. Good luck
teedo757 said:
This is not a bad thing. You need to understand that you are seeing a percentage of usage so there is always going to be something that is using the majority of your battery. The nice thing is that you can visually see if your display is on and using battery power. If your phone has the screen off then most likely there is something wrong with the rom and you may want to wipe and reinstall.....or the information is being displayed improperly which again may be an issue with the rom install. Good luck
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Thank you for the input. I am at a loss. My phone came off the charger at 7:00am central and here at 3:27pm central I am at 41%. It has been dropping fast since 12pm.
smolck said:
Thank you for the input. I am at a loss. My phone came off the charger at 7:00am central and here at 3:27pm central I am at 41%. It has been dropping fast since 12pm.
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I have the same problem. I got crazy battery life with one of the early beta versions, but now i have to charge atleast once a day, sometimes 2 or 3 times. I haven't tweaked anything, just flashed 8/17 build and GS and installed all my normal apps(launcher pro, beautiful widgets),
smolck said:
Thank you for the input. I am at a loss. My phone came off the charger at 7:00am central and here at 3:27pm central I am at 41%. It has been dropping fast since 12pm.
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9 hours later and at 41% is not bad at all.... unless you haven't used the phone
Thanks for the replies guys. Quick update, I flashed the 8/25 nightly (wow, this sucker is FASTER than all previous versions!) and was still getting high screen usage. So what I did was wipe the dalvik cache and let it reboot. I then turned on the automatic backlight tweaks under Cyanogen mod settings/user interface. I tested it last night and the battery life seems great. I have been off charger this morning since 6:55 and it is now 8:02am and I am still at 100%. I am NOT running the battery tweak either.
I will update this afternoon. Thanks!
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I got my lg optimus 2x 1 month ago and i noticed a huge battery drain.I was thinking that it will work fine after 6-7 full cycles.I saw a thread in which a guy that after doing a factory reset(he had the same problems as i have) the battery will work normally.
I did that but it didn't work for me. Is this the solution?Did I do it right?Do i have to buy a new battery? I have rooted my phone yesterday so I was thinking is this a software issue? I have lg official 2.3.4 ROM. DO i need another ROM?
please.
Help me guys.
Thank you!!!
Do you leave data usage on during the night? Are your apps allowed to synch automatically? Try using airplane mode during the night (that's what I do... I don't normally get calls or messages during the night )
LarsPT said:
Do you leave data usage on during the night? Are your apps allowed to synch automatically? Try using airplane mode during the night (that's what I do... I don't normally get calls or messages during the night )
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I don't leave wifi ,background data or 3g on,if i leave it charged at 100% at the time i got to bed,the next day when i get back from school,without using the phone my battery level is around 40%.
Using a live wallpaper? The factory reset only works because it stops the application/rogue setting from being there.
If you get 'Battery Monitor' you will be able to see what is draining you battery, and any 'wake-locks' or 'partial-wakelocks' that are stopping the phone from going into sleep mode.
look at the battery usage indicator and post a screenshot of it. Maybe the problem can be isolated.
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romeon said:
look at the battery usage indicator and post a screenshot of it. Maybe the problem can be isolated.
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Now i am on cyanogenmod 7.1. I have charged the battery to,but after 5-6 hours of standby and 10 minutes of games it has reached 28%
Please help me. Is it a way out of this? Do i need a new battery? Does the phone eat more power than what it is intendet to?
Jesus christ, at one point it almost seems to go backwards!!!
I never had anything like that, I can tell you that!
LarsPT said:
Jesus christ, at one point it almost seems to go backwards!!!
I never had anything like that, I can tell you that!
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I have the same problem but my issue is that after charging for whole night and keeping the phone in switch off still my battery drains to zero %, then i gave my phone to service center they kept it 2 days and told me that the phone mother board has some issue need to replace it, my advise give back to service center and look what they say.
sayyed.ali1981 said:
I have the same problem but my issue is that after charging for whole night and keeping the phone in switch off still my battery drains to zero %, then i gave my phone to service center they kept it 2 days and told me that the phone mother board has some issue need to replace it, my advise give back to service center and look what they say.
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Yes that's why I did a general test drive for two weeks on my phone before starting flashing and rooting and what not. Unfortunately our friend here has already flashed CM7 on it.
Unless he's able to restore stock software I'm affraid he won't be covered by warranty...
If he uses NVFlash he will be able to get it back to stock
Its easy to put back stock firmware if he knows wchich one he had, btw usually there is one backup on your sd card, check for it.
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andreiharpa said:
Now i am on cyanogenmod 7.1. I have charged the battery to,but after 5-6 hours of standby and 10 minutes of games it has reached 28%
Please help me. Is it a way out of this? Do i need a new battery? Does the phone eat more power than what it is intendet to?
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Oh dude thats heavy. I look out for a solution
Which apps are u using?
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i did actually use NVflash
Scougar said:
If he uses NVFlash he will be able to get it back to stock
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i did actually use NVflash.SO will i get covered by warranty? is it the phone or the battery that is broken?
Can i test them? cause i bought the phone from other town and i will have to pay for shipping.(and i want to be sure if something is broken)
Try to flash a cm9 rom. It saves a lot of juices. For 2.3.X. The battery drians is really terrible
Hi, I have had this phone for almost a week now and have noticed that battery life for me is shocking. I JUSSST about manage to get through a day and some days have to charge the phone a little half way through the day to make it last the extra mile. After the first few days of heavy usage I went back to my regular usage pattern but still the battery hasnt been good. I have posted many screenshots and posts in the 'battery life' & 'battery stats thread' in the ONE General section so check em out. I downloaded GSam battery monitor and found out that my phone has many wakelocks from 'wakelock mediaserver'...at one point I had almost 900 wakelocks from it :/ I tried everything to fix this but couldnt. Plus the phone in general would lose 1% battery every 50 seconds to a minute. I had to resort to a factory reset in the hope that it would fix the issue but that wasnt the case. At first the mediaserver wakelock was nowhere in sight and battery drain was ok compared to before, but then again its back to draining insanely fast and the mediaserver wakelocks are back. Anyone else have this problem? Or anyone else finding that their battery is draining quick?! Because if this persists then im gonna take it back to p4u later in the month and get a new one. Just want to know if this is only happening to me and if anyone has any solutions. Thanks
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I'll be honest I didn't have hope for the one and it's battery. I got this one a week ago. It's on it's 5th charge. That's good! Are you a heavy user?
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I'll be honest I didn't have hope for the one and it's battery. I got this one a week ago. It's on it's 5th charge. That's good! Are you a heavy user?
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Well I think I'm a medium to heavy user. But most other people, especially reviewers who probably used the phone heavily are easily getting over a day of use.
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Yeah suprsingly I am almost. It's weird. I think blinkfeed helps in a weird way. Instead of checking your facebook. Twitter.news apps etc it's all there to look at. Might save juice I don't know.if your worried return it though dude
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lte ...
Try disabling lte ! This did the trick for me ...
chuckbert said:
Try disabling lte ! This did the trick for me ...
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I don't have lte :/ lol
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Hi, I have had this phone for almost a week now and have noticed that battery life for me is shocking. I JUSSST about manage to get through a day and some days have to charge the phone a little half way through the day to make it last the extra mile. After the first few days of heavy usage I went back to my regular usage pattern but still the battery hasnt been good. I have posted many screenshots and posts in the 'battery life' & 'battery stats thread' in the ONE General section so check em out. I downloaded GSam battery monitor and found out that my phone has many wakelocks from 'wakelock mediaserver'...at one point I had almost 900 wakelocks from it :/ I tried everything to fix this but couldnt. Plus the phone in general would lose 1% battery every 50 seconds to a minute. I had to resort to a factory reset in the hope that it would fix the issue but that wasnt the case. At first the mediaserver wakelock was nowhere in sight and battery drain was ok compared to before, but then again its back to draining insanely fast and the mediaserver wakelocks are back. Anyone else have this problem? Or anyone else finding that their battery is draining quick?! Because if this persists then im gonna take it back to p4u later in the month and get a new one. Just want to know if this is only happening to me and if anyone has any solutions. Thanks
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If you loose power so quickly on new phone you have two options - battery not good or you have too many things going on!!! I will bet it is the second option! Under too many consider all processes you have running on the device.... less job for processor(S), more battery live! All phones come with a lot of crap installed form the vendor(map, wheather, location services, etc...) I will recommend to kill(dissable/enable) all processes you do not need!!! Make a test, but get all important staff out of the phone, so you may need to factory reset if you kill something important. Do not worry, with fact. reset will be like new..... and all the crap already started So good luck
Found this in another device forum, but it could (possibly) help you with your wakelock problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1717237
I've never had the mediaserver wakelock (nor do I have the One yet), so don't know how well this will work. I suppose it's worth a try. If not, you might try Googling the mediaserver wakelock problem to try some other solutions. Seems to be a relatively common problem.
I'm guessing you're a heavy user!
What apps to you have installed? how many apps to you have?
My phone lasted 1 day and 9hrs on one charge with moderate internet use, txt messaging, phone calls - and that was without power saving mode enabled.
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LTE actually uses almost as little battery as being connected to wifi...
Could someone kindly point me to the area of know-how for an issue im having with my battery. After flashing many roms and restoring many backups, my phone is losing battery faster than ever without any services running. I have used a battery calibration app to assist in my issue but to no avail. It will drain very fast but lose ZERO percents over night and even gain 4 to 5 percent while the screen is off for extended time. THis led me to believe my battery is out of whack and needs some TLC pls help b0ss
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i got that samsung galaxy S5 For the AT&T
OK, I will request your thread to be moved to the correct section.
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OK, I will request your thread to be moved to the correct section.
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what a great help this forum was.... my phone dies in 1 hour then sits on 2 percent for the next 3 hours pls help
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what a great help this forum was.... my phone dies in 1 hour then sits on 2 percent for the next 3 hours pls help
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Maybe no one has helped you because they don't know the answer. Look at the forums for this device, it's not very active. Most people have moved onto other devices. As far as I know, there is no way to calibrate the battery. Have you tested a different battery?
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stew1411 said:
Maybe no one has helped you because they don't know the answer. Look at the forums for this device, it's not very active. Most people have moved onto other devices. As far as I know, there is no way to calibrate the battery. Have you tested a different battery?
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i thought this was a general request regarding batteries, not the device itself. Mod moved this thread here.. ive tried the apps, i also just deleted the batterystats.bin file and rebooted. Still hangs on 2 %. I did buy an offbrand battery that claimed to be 4200 MA but it wasnt. It was stock size and that battery was chill for the most part for a week then literally bit the dust. Wouldnt stay charged. It even weighed half the weight as my 2 year old original battery. So now im on the 2 year old one with this issue. Would you think it would be the battery itself making this happen? Or is it related to my software?
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i thought this was a general request regarding batteries, not the device itself. Mod moved this thread here.. ive tried the apps, i also just deleted the batterystats.bin file and rebooted. Still hangs on 2 %. I did buy an offbrand battery that claimed to be 4200 MA but it wasnt. It was stock size and that battery was chill for the most part for a week then literally bit the dust. Wouldnt stay charged. It even weighed half the weight as my 2 year old original battery. So now im on the 2 year old one with this issue. Would you think it would be the battery itself making this happen? Or is it related to my software?
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Oh I didn't know they moved it here, I thought you originally posted here. I'm not sure on S5, but on my old LG, after flashing a few roms the phone would act weird with battery life. I'm not sure about the specifics, but I think getting it back involved draining it to 0%, charging to 100%, then draining back to 0%, and repeating the process about 5 times. But that was a different phone, so I'm not sure. Have you disabled any background apps that may be running? I've disabled all touchwiz stuff I can think of so it won't run.
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Oh I didn't know they moved it here, I thought you originally posted here. I'm not sure on S5, but on my old LG, after flashing a few roms the phone would act weird with battery life. I'm not sure about the specifics, but I think getting it back involved draining it to 0%, charging to 100%, then draining back to 0%, and repeating the process about 5 times. But that was a different phone, so I'm not sure. Have you disabled any background apps that may be running? I've disabled all touchwiz stuff I can think of so it won't run.
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ya i dont have much running in the background, i may have to try charging and discharging that may help